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Dis he no' play for fhilthfc?

Beaton, Beaton, Semper Beaton

Crazy golf against Cooper. Tommy Cooper.

Astroturf is an anagram of sour fart. Well, OK, it's not: but it's closer to it than this abomination of a pitch is to a proper playing surface.

England's talent, generally, with the odd exception (1966 and All That), is to fail to make the most of its superiority in numbers with ability.

You can post, on the same theme: "Jesus Saves!" "But St John scores the rebound"

Subject of a great graffito outside a Liverpool church: "What will you do when Christ returns?" asked the sign Cameth the reply: "Move St John to No 8"... That indicates the esteem in which he was held at Anfield.

Apologise, and put lots of dough into a fund to bail out the principal offender. Clubs ‘must make amends to victims’ Marc Horne Tuesday March 02 2021, 12.01am, The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/clubs-must-make-amends-to-victims-8v5wgs88s Celtic and Rangers must “make amends” to survivors of sexual abuse that has tarnished the reputation of the national sport, a former first minister has claimed. Henry McLeish, who oversaw a review of Scottish football a decade ago, said every club without exception should say sorry and try to put things right. An independent report commissioned by the Scottish FA told clubs who had failed to protect young players to offer an “unequivocal and unreserved” public apology to victims. The document, published last month, also backed the idea of clubs contributing to a fund which would offer reparations to those affected. Celtic FC, whose feeder team are embroiled in an abuse scandal spanning three decades, reiterated an apology from last year in which they said they were “very sorry” that such events took place. Rangers FC have declined to make a public statement since the report was released. McLeish, who signed for Leeds United and East Fife before launching a political career with the Labour party, claimed their response had fallen short. “I love the game intensely,” he told BBC Radio Scotland. “When issues arise like this then they should be willing to apologise.” He added: “I would urge Rangers and Celtic to reflect and apologise and be part of the mainstream of Scottish thinking that looks at people who have been hard done by and wants to make redress .” The Scottish FA, Motherwell, Hibernian, Falkirk, Partick Thistle, the Highland league club Forres Mechanics and Hutchison Vale, an Edinburgh youth team, have all released statements expressing contrition and remorse. Last week Mairi Gougeon, the sports minister, said clubs could not evade or ignore recommendations made by the Independent Review of Abuse in Scottish Football. Celtic FC has insisted it is not legally culpable for abuse which took place within Celtic Boys Club, insisting it was an “entirely separate organisation” with which it had historic connections. However, the review concluded that senior clubs could not distance themselves from past abuse at “inextricably” linked feeder clubs. The report also said clubs should not attempt to use changes of commercial ownership or status to evade responsibility. In 2018 an alleged victim of paedophile Gordon Neely, who worked at Rangers’ ground, Ibrox, between 1986 and 1991, was told he should pursue his case with liquidators as Rangers were owned by a different company when the abuse took place and that duty of care was not with the current owners. Both Celtic and Rangers were contacted for comment.

Yeah. In The Lounge Forum.

A thread on the odious and smug professor, opened on Sunday, seems to have disappeared.

I think that we may need to be a bit more praguematic, but I am confident we can Svjek them up.

The Guardian it says: Rangers v Slavia Prague: Slavia Prague will probably also be happy with what looks like a pretty kind draw. The sides have never met before. FacebookTwitter 2m ago12:28 Rangers v Slavia Prague: Rangers will probably be happy with what looks like a pretty kind draw.

Slavia Prague? They only put 8 past the Dubai Dodgers, so they can't be much cop. File under: Doable - we have nothing to fear but fear itself. OOOOPS! That was Sparta Prague. Should have czeched first.

Lennon. Simply scruff. Yesterday's man. Next!!

I could take the view that asking about Paterson, et alia, first up was doing SG a favour, by allowing him to get it out of the way, immediately, and heading off, at the pass, any 'football writers' who may have been inclined to labour the matter.

This could get interesting. Lord Mulholland, the Lord Advocate when the Crown Office implemented its mass arrests' programme, may be called to give evidence, and be cross examined in Court, by the silk acting for Mr David Grier, who is claiming significant (read eye-watering) damages for wrongful arrest, unlawful incarceration, denial of Human Rights, traducing of reputation; the usual stuff, in Ceausescu's Scotland. I wonder if the Crown will fold and agree settlements, to save its washing being laundered in public, to allow Lord Mullholland to save face, and, to best serve the public interest by not undermining, even more, confidence in the competence of the country's system of justice. If I was a betting man....... Judge in Rangers case to be witness James Mulholland Friday February 26 2021, 12.01am, The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/judge-in-rangers-case-to-be-witness-spb0pdbjr Compensation claims have arisen from arrests made during investigations into the sale of Rangers football club The judge at the centre of a doomed Rangers fraud investigation is set to be called as a witness at a £5 million damages action brought by the club’s administrator. Lord Mulholland is expected to be questioned at a Court of Session action about the time he was in charge of Scotland’s independent prosecution service. Lawyers are set to ask him about the role he played in police and Crown investigations into alleged financial wrongdoing at the club. David Grier, an administrator with Duff & Phelps, a financial consultancy, is suing the Crown Office and Police Scotland over the alleged unlawfulness of the investigation. Grier was one of a number of men arrested during an investigation into the sale of the Ibrox club to Craig Whyte, a businessman. He and his co-accused were brought to court but acquitted after judge Lord Bannatyne concluded that there was no evidence to prove prosecutors’ claims. Yesterday Andrew Smith, QC, the lawyer for Grier, told judge Lord Tyre that Lord Mulholland “is clearly going to be pivotal in this case”. He added: “Lord Mulholland will probably be on our list just in case my learned friend for some reason does not wish to lead him.” Grier — who has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing — is claiming that prosecutors had no evidence to justify him being arrested and charged. Grier is also suing the chief constable of Police Scotland for acting unlawfully when he was arrested during an investigation into wrongdoing at Rangers. He is seeking £2 million in damages from the force. The legal actions stems from a police inquiry into the financial position of Rangers during the past decade and the sale of the club to Whyte. This month Tyre ruled that the Crown had “no probable cause” to prosecute Grier. The judge said that Grier’s legal team still had to prove that the prosecution against their client was conducted maliciously. He wrote: “Where, as here, the charges were dismissed as irrelevant, it seems to me that it will normally be difficult to argue that reasonable and probable cause existed from an objective standpoint.” Yesterday Gerry Moynihan, QC, senior counsel for the Lord Advocate, James Wolffe, QC, said that Mulholland was being approached to provide a witness statement for the case. The case is expected to be called on March 9. The parties will debate whether Tyre’s recent judgment about the prosecution lacking probable cause applies from the time Grier was arrested and appeared initially in court, or whether it applies only at the time the case was called in the High Court. The full hearing in the case is expected in April.

I am always a bit concerned about punishments being applied 2, 3, 4, whatever no of times , for the same offence. That doesn't happen even to sex murderers. I imagine -trust- that the Club has enforced its Disciplinary Code, to which the players signed up on joining/renewing contract. The matter seems, now to be closed, from its point of view. That does leave the issue of what the SFA(and/orSPFL?) will do. I have no doubt that there will be, as they say, an appetite to, as they say, throw the book at the players, primarily, in my view, because they are Rangers' players, and impose heavy penalties, probably bans. The beaks' first problem is that they will have to take into account the Clubs' impostions, in assessment of any sanctions, as I am convinced that it is challengeable if they do not. The second problem is, of course, what we might call the camel in the room, namely, the adventures of the club like no other in the Arabian Gulf, and the lack of action, by the beaks, on clear infractions of protocols, rules, requirements, etc. Add in the 'girlfriend' flying in from America, untested, unquarantined; the house parties, organised by their once star forward, and/or his current dig; the weekends in Spain, with the girlfriend, and others, following which no quarantine was imposed; Shane Duffy leaving the 'bubble', such as it was, in Dubai, flying to Heathrow on a commercial flight, then returning to Glasgow, on, I think,a commercial flight, having undertaken family and other business, in London and/or Brighton, and playing straightaway, with no isolation/quarantine period, etc. etc. and you have quite the problem for the authorities. I might hazard that a club has honoured the rules, regulations, and protocols, more in the breach than in the observance, with, as far as I can see, little, or no, action, or even explanation, to other Clubs at least, as to why disciplinary measures were not appropriate. Punishing, now, any other Club and/or its players is therefore, significantly problematic, in terms of equity and fairness (never watchwords at the football authorities, granted), in the light of the precedents apparently set recently. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Looked pacier. Maybe the beer goggles.

I'd take Lukaku.

On that form, Alfredo is the best player in Scotland.

Well 9 - 5 on aggregate. Almost a cricket score. Oh, wait, after today it is..

Paterson on. Cue outrage, faux mostly. Double, treble that

i think that they will be saying, maybe in Quechua, that they are glad that they do not live and play professionally in some crazy country like Scotland, where, an infraction of Covid 19 Regulations can lead to triple indemnity for the transgressors, unlike any other country that they can imagine: 1. punished by Poileas Alba, with a statutory fine 2. punished by the Club 3. punished by the sports' authorities, with the possibility of another punishment, if these authorities decide, or are told, to sanction the Club. I think that hey will be of the opinion that imposition of triple punishments can, surely, only be because professional athletes in Scotland do not conform to basic professional standards and behaviour, on, and off, the pitch (or, in their case, court). Peruvian volleyball: not as outlandish as some may think.

Neil Lennon won League titles as manager when -Rangers were docked points -Rangers were not in the League -he inherited a strong and winning side, with a substantial points total, from Brendan Rodgers -the prize was awarded by zoom call cabalists, hardly the stuff of legend. Mind you, the majority of football supporters -following Bonaparte, generally- would, of course, take a manager with that amount of "luck".

Painting his head with potassium permanganate, although he really doesn't need it to look like a prick